Well, for me, I'm excited because I really like pokemon, and I never played the original Gold or Silver, so this is essentially a new pokemon game for me.

Other people regard Gold and Silver as the best game in the series, and are looking forward to another chance to play them through their remakes.

And as remakes there are lots of new features. The Pokewalker is brand new, and the updated graphics look great. Those are the only two I can think of, but there's certainly loads more of new content that wasn't in the originals.

Finally; it's pokemon. People eat up pokemon games like vegetarians eat salad.

For all you American, European & Australian visitors, Nintendo has announced that the Pikachu Coloured Pichu, given in America's GameStop store last month, is now available to be given over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for all US and EU games. This event is now running and is scheduled to last until March 25th 2010. This Pichu can be downloaded to Diamond, Pearl and Platinum. Just connect via Mystery Gift and you can download it. If you already got the Pichu at Gamestop, you cannot get this event again. As mentioned before, this Pichu is a Shiny Pichu and gives you access to the Spiky-eared Pichu in HeartGold/SoulSilver.

i'm hyped because the johto ark was and still is the best in the series and it is finally becoming more user friendly.(bright ds screen, wireless link up, pal park instead of time machine limitations,etc) those actually mean more to me than the graphics and new additions. Plus it was untransferable to current gen games before now.(I could go on)@toon link btw I liked your old avatar better.

I am excited because Gold was the first Pokemon game I've ever played. I remember watching my bro play Pokemon Blue, and when Gold and Silver came out I finally had one of my own. And I've bought every series of Pokemon yet.

@toonlink yeah that avatar is better and I already got the pikachu colored pichu. I got it on wifi yesterday. It is pretty cool but do you know if it still activates the event if you evolve it? I'm asking cuz I want a shiny pikachu